Accession Number
2008/2.196.13

Title
Lewis A. Kimberly, Lieutenant Commander U.S.N.

Artist(s)
Julius Brill

Object Creation Date
1863

Medium & Support
albumen print on paper

Credit Line
Gift of Dr. Seymour and Barbara K. Adelson

Subject matter
The chiseled visage of United States Navy Lieutenant Commander Lewis Kimberly gazes with a neutral expression to the left out of the picture plane. The bust-length portrait of the naval officer hovers amid a blank background; his torso appears to dissolve into the surrounding beige void. Kimberly served in several posts in the Western Theater and the Gulf of Mexico during the American Civil War (1861-65). Here he poses for Julius Brill, a German-born photographer active in New York City in the middle decades of the nineteenth century. 

Physical Description
Bust-length portrait of a mustachioed man in a military uniform floating on a blank background. 

Primary Object Classification
Photograph

Collection Area
Photography

Rights
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Keywords
armed forces
cartes-de-visite (card photographs)
military uniforms
officers (administrators)
portraits
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